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Socioeconomic and environmental factors associated with malaria hotspots in the Nanoro demographic surveillance area, Burkina Faso.

Toussaint RouambaSeydou Nakanabo-DialloKarim DerraEli RouambaAdama KaziengaYasuko InoueErnest K OuédraogoMoussa WaongoSokhna DiengAbdoulaye GuindoBoukary OuédraogoKankoé Lévi SallahSeydou BarroPascal YakaFati Kirakoya-SamadoulougouHalidou TintoJean Gaudart
Published in: BMC public health (2019)
These fine-scale findings highlight a relatively stable spatio-temporal pattern of malaria risk and indicate that social and environmental factors play an important role in malaria incidence. Integrating data on these factors into existing malaria struggle tools would help in the development of sustainable bottleneck strategies adapted to the local context for malaria control.
Keyphrases
  • plasmodium falciparum
  • public health
  • air pollution
  • electronic health record
  • risk assessment
  • deep learning
  • climate change
  • artificial intelligence